Former Bunnell teacher's aide sentenced on child porn charges

Former Bunnell Elementary teacher's aide Daniel Biles was sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing child pornography.

FRANK FERNANDEZSTAFF WRITER

A former Bunnell Elementary teacher's aide was sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing child pornography.Daniel Biles was also sentenced Thursday to five years sex-offender probation. Circuit Judge J. David Walsh also designated Biles a sex offender.Biles was charged in April with six counts of possession of sexual performance of a child and then re-arrested during an arraignment in June and charged with an additional 14 counts of possession of child pornography. The Flagler County School Board fired Biles, who earned $14.87 per hour, in September. Biles was suspended with pay after the first set of charges in April. His contract ended in June, and he was not rehired. However, "nobody ever reported, nobody ever observed" any illegal activities on school property, School Board attorney Kristy Gavin said in an earlier interview.Biles was hired by the district as a child care worker in 1991. As a teacher's aide, he worked with students in the exceptional-student-education program, which includes students with a range of physical and mental disabilities.